Oct 4, 2026 · 17 min · 10 segments
Inside Outside Guys | Floor Coverings International | October 04, 2026 - Chuck and Ken talk with Austin Hall from Floor Coverings International to talk about their services and what they can do for…
So we service people Um, and help all of our clients to love the floors that they live on in their homes.
We help homeowners all over the Metro Detroit area and even some other areas of Michigan as well.
Um, we also do some light commercial work, like we'll do doctor's offices, schools, um, gyms or places like that.
What is popular today? What are people, I mean, we all think the luxury vinyl plank is the flooring today.
On the vinyl side, we're seeing a lot of people who do new builds where their subfloor is in pretty good condition.
There's a bunch of breakdowns where you have WPC, SPC, RPC, and then different coatings or finishes to look more like wood or maybe a little bit more like plastic.
So we have a lot of homeowners that are choosing luxury vinyl, but I would say the industry is moving a little bit more towards thicker materials or floor coverings that might last a little bit longer than what some of the luxury vinyl of the past has.
That's important to us because it has a little bit of a better locking mechanism.
That locking mechanism being thicker prevents the planks from separating at all, which can make for a more durable floor.
But WPC also has a little bit more capability of having like a wood grain pattern ingrained onto the surface of it.
So we service people Um, and help all of our clients to love the floors that they live on in their homes.
We help homeowners all over the Metro Detroit area and even some other areas of Michigan as well.
Um, we also do some light commercial work, like we'll do doctor's offices, schools, um, gyms or places like that.
What is popular today? What are people, I mean, we all think the luxury vinyl plank is the flooring today.
On the vinyl side, we're seeing a lot of people who do new builds where their subfloor is in pretty good condition.
There's a bunch of breakdowns where you have WPC, SPC, RPC, and then different coatings or finishes to look more like wood or maybe a little bit more like plastic.
So we have a lot of homeowners that are choosing luxury vinyl, but I would say the industry is moving a little bit more towards thicker materials or floor coverings that might last a little bit longer than what some of the luxury vinyl of the past has.
That's important to us because it has a little bit of a better locking mechanism.
That locking mechanism being thicker prevents the planks from separating at all, which can make for a more durable floor.
But WPC also has a little bit more capability of having like a wood grain pattern ingrained onto the surface of it.
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